The universe is full of mysteries, but one of the biggest is called 'dark matter'. This is what we know so far. When we look…
benJuly 12, 2019
Throughout history, people have believed some crazy things. In the Christian Middle Ages, alchemists believed that man's soul was divided in two after the fall…
benJuly 10, 2019
On the 2nd of December 1942 in a small lab in the center of Chicago, human beings crossed a threshold as a species as we…
benJuly 10, 2019
All of the energy around you, from the light bouncing into your eyes to the heat coming out of your toaster, comes from an unbroken…
benJuly 7, 2019
In 1929, astronomers discovered something that shattered their previous conceptions about the universe. The universe was expanding. In the years that followed they reasoned that…
benJuly 6, 2019
Quantum mechanics is one of the most ambitious and successful theories ever created by science. It unifies thousands of separate theories under one roof to…
benJuly 5, 2019
Every single atom around us, including those in our own bodies, originated in momentous cosmic events that predate the Earth. We know this because there…
benJuly 3, 2019
When we want to ask questions about the fundamental nature of our reality, we can sometimes arrive there by questioning assumptions that seem too trivial…
benJuly 1, 2019
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